NTT Advanced Technology introduced an H.265/HEVC codec software development kit (SDK) for applications ranging from mobile video to 4K video.
H.265/HEVC, also known as ‘High Efficiency Video Coding’ (HEVC), was approved by the ITU-T’s Study Group 16 in April 2013.
NTT said H.265/HEVC provides approximately twice the compression performance when compared with conventional H.264/AVC.
Some key features of the SDK:
- HEVC elementary stream I/O (Annex.B form)
- CBR rate control / VBR rate control
- Automatic scene change detection and key-frame insert specification
- Frame reference structure specification
- Pre-filter control
- Progressive / interlace structural compatibility
- Parallel encoding by slice structure and LCU pipeline
- Adaptive-quantization matrix
- DeBlocking Filter/SAO Filter Control